Henry's Blueshouse

Producer of the American Blues Legends ’75 album Jim Simpson talks us through the backstories behind the bluesmen on the album, including Boogie Woogie Red, Chico Chism, Billy The Kid…

It’s hard to figure out why Jimmy Dawkins doesn’t generally come to mind when folk are talking about the greatest post-60s blues guitar men. He had as good a technique…

Today the final part of our series on the American Blues Legends tours of the 1970s kicks off with some lesser known, but still immensely important names and goes on…

Following on from part one of our look back at the American Blues Legends tours and albums, we look at the later editions…American Blues Legends tours continued sporadically up to…

Jerry Lee Lewis, photographed by Jim Simpson at West Bromwich Town Hall in 1964 Today I guess that the airwaves, the print and the online media have been dominated by…

The 1970s were good to The Blues. Not only were most of the greats still at their best, the Three Kings were actively touring (as were Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf,…

For much of the 1960s, a real highlight for blues fans was provided by the touring American Folk Blues Festivals which played concert halls through UK and Europe and were…

If you have seen that wonderful film, “The Last of the Blue Devils”, then you will certainly recall the moment that Count Basie, wearing his customary yachtsman’s cap, entered The…

I was lucky enough to be regularly on the road during the 1970s with Cousin Joe from New Orleans, and there was rarely a dull moment. Among the highlights were…

We were sitting at the back of this single-decker bus, parked in a muddy field in West Flanders, Belgium. The rain had settled in since those early morning showers and…